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Guide: ORCID: Adding your funders

Adding your research funding to your ORCID ID

If you have received research awards from funding organisations, you can add these to your ORCID profile under the 'Funding' section. 

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Click on the 'Add funding' to connect to a search and link function or to add information manually. 

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Using the search and link function

Using the ÜberWizard search and Link tool 

Link funding

The ÜberWizard for ORCID tool will search for funding awards from over 200 funding bodies from around the world. If it finds awards that belong to you, the tool lets you import the details automatically. 

If the ÜberWizard linking tool does not find your research awards, you can add them manually by following the instructions below.

Adding funding awards manually

If the ÜberWizard linking tool does not find your research awards, you can add them manually by completing the form within your ORCID profile. Choose the 'Add manually' option as shown above. This will open up a form so that you can add the full details of each of your funding awards. 

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How will my funding be displayed?

As with all aspects of your ORCID profile, you have the option to make the information about your funding private, restricted or public. If you choose the public option, your funding awards will be displayed like this: 

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UberWizard and ORCID

The 'ÜberWizard import tool' (link below) allows you to easily search for research grants that you have been awarded and to link them to your ORCID profile. The ÜberWizard includes details of over 2 million grants from around 200 funding bodies from around the world. 

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Help from ORCID on adding funding

The ORCID webpages have extensive help sections. Help with adding funding details to your ORCID profile can be found here (link below).

Funders included in the ÜberWizard tool

These are some of the funders most pertinent to SRUC currently linked to the ÜberWizard Search and Link tool in ORCID.

  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) 
  • Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
  • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) 
  • European Commission (EC)
  • European Research Council (ERC)
  • Innovate UK (Innovate UK) 
  • Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
  • The Royal Society (Royal Society)
  • Wellcome Trust (WT)

The tool covers funders from across the world and more are being added.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about ORCID or would like assistance or further information, you can contact researchlibrarysupport@sruc.ac.uk.